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Facebook Withdraws Changes in Data Use

Via the New York Times By ALAN COWELL Published: February 18, 2009 After a wave of protests from its users, the Facebook social networking site said on Wednesday that it would withdraw changes to its so-called terms of service concerning … Continue reading

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View * view my profile * view my articles * Facebook * Twitter * LinkedIn * MySpace Facebook Responds to Concerns Over Terms of Service

Via Mashable February 16, 2009 – 3:47 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow oday’s hoopla over changes to the Facebook Terms of Service have prompted a rare blog post from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the post, Zuckerberg … Continue reading

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Court rejects appeal over student-teacher drunk MySpace pics

Via Ars Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: December 05, 2008 – 10:01AM CT Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won’t be teaching kids the three Arrrrs any time soon: They’ve rejected Snyder’s claim that her First Amendment rights … Continue reading

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Online journalists now jailed more often than other media

Via ARS Technica By Nate Anderson | Published: December 07, 2008 – 03:10PM CT If you think it’s tough to be a blogger because your Google AdWords revenue has been in the toilet lately, the Committee to Protect Journalists wants … Continue reading

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Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Many Questions Over Online Identity

Via the New York Times By BRIAN STELTER Published: November 27, 2008 Is lying about one’s identity on the Internet now a crime?The verdict Wednesday in the MySpace cyberbullying case raised a variety of questions about the terms that users … Continue reading

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In Britain, Outwitting Strict Laws Against Libel

Via the New York Times By NOAM COHEN Published: November 23, 2008 A SMALL computer file appeared on the Internet last week, purporting to list the 13,000 members of the racist, far-right British National Party. The text file contained not … Continue reading

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Burmese Blogger Sentenced to 20 Years For Reporting on Protests

Via Media Shift by Lucie Morillon, November 14, 2008 In many countries, you have to commit a serious crime to be sentenced to 20 years in jail, but in Burma this can happen just for using the Internet. There are … Continue reading

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Canadian Court Rules Linking to Libel Isn’t (Necessarily) Libel

Via Media Shift by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, November 13, 2008 Linking to content is the essence of the online experience — it’s the “Web” in the World Wide Web. But there’s a lot of legal gray area around linking, and … Continue reading

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Nigeria Joins List of Countries Harassing Bloggers

Via Media Shift by Sokari Ekine, November 10, 2008 On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports was arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some … Continue reading

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Malaysian Court Frees Blogger

Via The New York Times By THOMAS FULLER Published: November 7, 2008 BANGKOK — In what lawyers described as a landmark ruling, a court in Malaysia on Friday ordered the release of one of the country’s best known bloggers, ruling … Continue reading

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